Shabir Randeree CBE

Shabir Randeree is Chairman of the DCD Group, an investment company with 30 years of experience in Real Estate, Venture Capital, Banking and Finance. He is also the Deputy Chairman of Al Baraka Bank South Africa and served as Chairman and founding director at EIIB, European Islamic Investment Bank plc (2006-12) and as founding director at IBB, Islamic Bank of Britain plc (2003-07).
 
Shabir is an Advisor to the UK Government’s Asia Task Force (2011 – 2013)  and the IFTF, Islamic Finance Task Force (2013). He served on the Ethnic Minorities Business Task Force (2007-09) and co-founded Edutrust, a multi Academy sponsor. Recently he was elected Chair of Governors at the Westminster Academy and Deputy Chairman of the HRH charity MOSAIC.  He is also a champion for 3FF, Three Faiths Forum.
 
Shabir graduated in Finance from Kingston University, followed by a MBA. He has executive training from Harvard and LBS where he is an Alumni, co-chairing the London Business School’s LBS-YPO ‘Growing Your Business’ Programme (2010-2014).
 
Shabir was awarded a CBE in HM The Queen's New Year's Honours List 2013 in recognition of his services to both business and education.